Award for "Worst" rather than "Best"

Everyone knows about the apex of movie awards which every actor/actress on the planet will give anything and everything to have in their collection, “Academy Awards” a.k.a. ‘The Oscars’, but a very few people know about an award that gives the “Worst” instead of the “Best” that’s usually given.

Interestingly, this award known as “Golden Raspberry Award” a.k.a. ‘Razzie’ has a massive publicity of its own and the ceremony is typically held one day before the Academy Awards (its model). Most winners do not attend the ceremony.

The first Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony was held on March 31, 1981, at John J. B. Wilson's (founder) living room alcove in Los Angeles to honour the worst in film of the 1980 film season, and the latest, the 33rd ceremony was held on February 23, 2013. Its categories includes; Worst Actor, Worst Actress, Worst Supporting Actor, Worst Supporting Actress, Worst Screen Couple/Worst Screen Ensemble, Worst Screenplay, Worst Director, Worst Picture, Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel.

The awards themselves are enough joke of their own. They typically cost $4.97 each, in the form of a "golfball-sized raspberry" which sits atop a Super 8 mm film reel, the whole of which is spray-painted gold.



The amazing thing is that top Hollywood actors/actresses actually acknowledge this award either satirically or otherwise, e.g. Bill Cosby, Ben Affleck etc.; and some have even attended the ceremony in person to actually accept their award and also give an acceptance speech. Examples include; Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock etc.

Bill Cosby became the first recipient to claim an award in 1988. His trophy was worth $1.97. He accepted to receive the award, on the condition that it must be real gold. Arrangements were made to present Cosby with his awards which was remodeled and made out of 24-carat gold and Italian marble, which cost almost $30,000.

In 2004, after winning the ‘Worst actor’, Ben Affleck joked on the radio, complaining he was "stiffed" because he had not been given his Worst Actor trophy. He was presented with his trophy in an appearance on Larry King Live. He commented, "It's a little cheap," and proceeded to pull the trophy apart while on the television program.



Ironically, Halle Berry went on stage to accept her award for ‘Worst actress’ in 2005 for her role in Catwoman holding her Academy Award for her performance in Monster's Ball in one hand and her Golden Raspberry Award trophy in the other. She parodied her performance when she accepted her Academy Award.



After her Worst Actress nomination for All About Steve in 2010, Sandra Bullock expressed interest in coming up to pick up her award. She brought DVD copies of the movie to the audience, declaring that the voters should watch the movie to see if she was really the worst performer, implying the Razzie voters cast ballots for her just to see if she appeared at the ceremony. The following night, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Blind Side.

In case you’re curious, log on to their website www.razzies.com for more information.

Highest Scoring Football Game: AS Adema 149–0 SO l'Emyrne

AS Adema 149–0 SO l'Emyrne is the world record for the highest scoreline in association football, recognised by The Guinness Book of Records, set on 31 October 2002. AS Adema, of Antananarivo, in Madagascar, beat their arch-rivals Stade Olympique de l'Emyrne (SOE) as the result of a pre-determined protest by SOE over refereeing decisions that had gone against them during a four-team playoff tournament. The match surpassed the previous record for the highest scoreline of 36–0, set in 1885.

Baby Girl Dies as Doctors Fight Over Delivery

A baby girl died while doctors fought over who should deliver her.

A newborn girl died after two doctors fought over who was going to deliver her while the mother was in labor, it has emerged.

The young mother begged the doctors to stop fighting and help her, she told a Brazilian television station.

But her pleas appear to have fallen on deaf ears. Her baby daughter suffocated to death, witnesses have said.

The two doctors were fired by the public hospital in the small city of Ivinhema near the border with Paraguay.

Brazilian authorities have launched an investigation over whether the delivery room fight caused the death or contributed to it.

Brazil’s Globo TV said witnesses reported one doctor got angry early Tuesday morning because the other doctor was summoned to deliver the baby for 32-year-old Gislaine de Matos Rodrigues even though he was not scheduled to be on duty.

Rodrigues, a seamstress, said she was terrified when the fight broke out.

‘I asked them to stop fighting and help me,’ she told Globo TV. ‘One of the nurses came to protect me and console me.’

A third doctor took over the delivery after hospital security guards removed the fighting doctors, Rodrigues said.

She said her baby girl was dead upon delivery.

Witnesses said the baby died of asphyxiation following complications, Globo TV reported.

One of the doctors admitted to Globo TV there was a fight in the delivery room, but blamed his colleague.

‘I didn’t get in a fight with him,’ said Dr. Sinomar Ricardo. ‘He got into a fight with me.’

The network said it was unable to interview the second doctor.

Police said they will investigate, and the regional body that oversees doctors in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul also launched a probe.

The two doctors were given 10 days to report their versions of what happened in the hospital’s delivery room.

The autopsy report on the baby’s death is expected to be released next week.